Definition of terrapin in English:
terrapin
nounˈtɛrəpɪnˈtɛrəˌpɪn
1A freshwater turtle, especially one of the smaller kinds of the Old World.
Emydidae and other families, order Chelonia: several genera and species, in particular the European pond terrapin
Called turtle in North America- The British public's fascination with exotic animals is giving the RSPCA problems ranging from a tank full of terrapins dumped on a doorstep in Rotherham to a Burmese python abandoned in a back yard in Bradford.
- They will be preparing 40 to 50 of the 250 tortoises and terrapins that share their home near Tewkesbury for hibernation.
- Since then, they have found homes for around 1,200 creatures ranging from dogs, cats, guinea pigs, chickens and geese to terrapins, snakes and iguanas.
- Now we find there are eight - at least - in a small fountain with a dozen or so nervous-looking fish, which keep themselves very much to themselves about as far away from the terrapins as they can get.
- There are no official figures on the number of exotic pets in the UK but the type of animals on sale from pet shops include birds, snakes and other reptiles, terrapins and even small alligators.
- It includes some natural history displays which are always there, including live terrapins, frogs and guinea pigs.
- My first meeting with a jaguar took place one misty morning on a sandbank in northern Brazil, where I was trying to film giant expansa terrapins.
- The river and its surrounding vegetation are home to monitor lizards, terrapins, monkeys, river otters and sea eagles.
- However, instead, they found a fresh water terrapin, a turtle-like creature normally kept as a pet.
- ‘There will be a demonstration on reptiles like snakes, terrapins, skinks and tortoises, that will look at how they adapt to the environment,’ says zoo educationist Imelda Matlala.
- In 1924 he published, to great acclaim, The Flaming Terrapin, an exuberant allegorical narrative of the Flood, in which the terrapin represents energy and rejuvenation.
- We're forever called over to see little kids with terrapins in their pockets.
- Following the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in the late 1980s, thousands of children bought turtles and terrapins.
- It would be in the upper Rio Branco, in Northern Brazil, though, where Nick, hiding in a pit filming giant expansa terrapins, would see his first jaguar in the wild.
- The gentle splashings of two huge terrapins punctuate the tides of sound coming out of the stereo's speakers.
- The first stop allows youngsters to feed the deer and sheep, then the party moves onwards to stroke the ducks and, finally, to feed the rabbits, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and terrapins.
- In the early 1990s, during the Ninja Turtle craze, 250,000 baby terrapins the size of a 50p piece were imported into Britain as pets and most died due to lack of knowledge on their upkeep.
- The terrapins were OK because they just sunned themselves in the aquarium, but then the cats and the three puppies arrived.
- Hamsters would be added to the mailman's shoulder as would parrots, guinea pigs, terrapins and wombats.
- An old boating lake here is now a pond rumoured to be home to a couple of terrapins.
2US A small edible turtle with lozenge-shaped markings on its shell, found in coastal marshes of the eastern US.
Malaclemys terrapin, family Emydidae
- Wheeler Marsh in Milford, Connecticut provides habitat for diamondback terrapins, a unique estuarine turtle.
- Studies on the eggs of diamondback terrapins, Malaclemys terrapin, demonstrated that at least one dune grass, Ammophila breviligulata, has the ability to absorb nutrients from turtle eggs.
- In population studies, most of the terrapins were consistently captured in large numbers only in Turtle Creek.
- Easy paddling along 30 miles of marked water trails takes you through a 2,900-acre salt marsh that is abundant with wildlife - snowy egrets, diamondback terrapins and herons, along with bluefish, rockfish, sea trout and flounder.
- Crabs or fish or even a diamondback terrapin enters a trap to feed on the bait, can't get out, dies and becomes the bait that attracts more victims.
- The northern diamondback terrapin, red fox, snapping turtle, raccoon, rabbit, skunk, opossum and blue crab, all animals that do well living close to people, have adapted nicely to the rapid changes of the Meadowlands.
- Considered a delicacy and served in restaurants, diamondback terrapins were heavily harvested along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts through most of the past century.
- In 1903, at the time of Le Guide's publication, you could walk into Delmonico's Restaurant, in New York City, and order such favorites as diamondback terrapin (a small eastern turtle), whitetail deer, and canvasback duck.
- Of the five creeks, we know for sure that two did not support terrapins via sampling done by Chambers, and no terrapins were ever observed in the two not directly sampled.
- ‘The diamondback terrapin became one of the most economically important reptiles in the world,’ said Lovich.
- It would appear that the low plant density of Turtle Creek may assist the terrapins by making resources more accessible there than in other creeks.
- With increased demand for terrapins by epicures, prices soared and a market was born to supply the big eastern cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
- We collected diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, eggs from multiple sights within its range to quantify variation in egg size and the amount of stored energy reserves provided within the eggs.
3British trademark A type of prefabricated one-storey building for temporary use.
- Avis Ball, the school's headteacher, said: ‘We are very pleased to have replaced two of our old terrapin buildings with two bright and airy brick built classrooms which are attached to the main school.’
- For many years ‘Terrapins’ were manufactured under licence in several countries overseas.
Origin
Early 17th century (denoting the diamondback terrapin): of Algonquian origin.
Definition of terrapin in US English:
terrapin
nounˈtɛrəˌpɪnˈterəˌpin
1US A small edible turtle with lozenge-shaped markings on its shell, found in coastal marshes of the eastern US.
Malaclemys terrapin, family Emydidae
- Crabs or fish or even a diamondback terrapin enters a trap to feed on the bait, can't get out, dies and becomes the bait that attracts more victims.
- We collected diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, eggs from multiple sights within its range to quantify variation in egg size and the amount of stored energy reserves provided within the eggs.
- In 1903, at the time of Le Guide's publication, you could walk into Delmonico's Restaurant, in New York City, and order such favorites as diamondback terrapin (a small eastern turtle), whitetail deer, and canvasback duck.
- In population studies, most of the terrapins were consistently captured in large numbers only in Turtle Creek.
- Of the five creeks, we know for sure that two did not support terrapins via sampling done by Chambers, and no terrapins were ever observed in the two not directly sampled.
- Considered a delicacy and served in restaurants, diamondback terrapins were heavily harvested along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts through most of the past century.
- Wheeler Marsh in Milford, Connecticut provides habitat for diamondback terrapins, a unique estuarine turtle.
- With increased demand for terrapins by epicures, prices soared and a market was born to supply the big eastern cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
- The northern diamondback terrapin, red fox, snapping turtle, raccoon, rabbit, skunk, opossum and blue crab, all animals that do well living close to people, have adapted nicely to the rapid changes of the Meadowlands.
- Easy paddling along 30 miles of marked water trails takes you through a 2,900-acre salt marsh that is abundant with wildlife - snowy egrets, diamondback terrapins and herons, along with bluefish, rockfish, sea trout and flounder.
- ‘The diamondback terrapin became one of the most economically important reptiles in the world,’ said Lovich.
- Studies on the eggs of diamondback terrapins, Malaclemys terrapin, demonstrated that at least one dune grass, Ammophila breviligulata, has the ability to absorb nutrients from turtle eggs.
- It would appear that the low plant density of Turtle Creek may assist the terrapins by making resources more accessible there than in other creeks.
2A freshwater turtle, especially one of the smaller kinds of the Old World.
Emydidae and other families, order Chelonia: several genera and species
Also called turtle- Since then, they have found homes for around 1,200 creatures ranging from dogs, cats, guinea pigs, chickens and geese to terrapins, snakes and iguanas.
- Now we find there are eight - at least - in a small fountain with a dozen or so nervous-looking fish, which keep themselves very much to themselves about as far away from the terrapins as they can get.
- There are no official figures on the number of exotic pets in the UK but the type of animals on sale from pet shops include birds, snakes and other reptiles, terrapins and even small alligators.
- In 1924 he published, to great acclaim, The Flaming Terrapin, an exuberant allegorical narrative of the Flood, in which the terrapin represents energy and rejuvenation.
- My first meeting with a jaguar took place one misty morning on a sandbank in northern Brazil, where I was trying to film giant expansa terrapins.
- ‘There will be a demonstration on reptiles like snakes, terrapins, skinks and tortoises, that will look at how they adapt to the environment,’ says zoo educationist Imelda Matlala.
- An old boating lake here is now a pond rumoured to be home to a couple of terrapins.
- The river and its surrounding vegetation are home to monitor lizards, terrapins, monkeys, river otters and sea eagles.
- We're forever called over to see little kids with terrapins in their pockets.
- The gentle splashings of two huge terrapins punctuate the tides of sound coming out of the stereo's speakers.
- Following the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in the late 1980s, thousands of children bought turtles and terrapins.
- They will be preparing 40 to 50 of the 250 tortoises and terrapins that share their home near Tewkesbury for hibernation.
- Hamsters would be added to the mailman's shoulder as would parrots, guinea pigs, terrapins and wombats.
- The British public's fascination with exotic animals is giving the RSPCA problems ranging from a tank full of terrapins dumped on a doorstep in Rotherham to a Burmese python abandoned in a back yard in Bradford.
- It would be in the upper Rio Branco, in Northern Brazil, though, where Nick, hiding in a pit filming giant expansa terrapins, would see his first jaguar in the wild.
- However, instead, they found a fresh water terrapin, a turtle-like creature normally kept as a pet.
- It includes some natural history displays which are always there, including live terrapins, frogs and guinea pigs.
- In the early 1990s, during the Ninja Turtle craze, 250,000 baby terrapins the size of a 50p piece were imported into Britain as pets and most died due to lack of knowledge on their upkeep.
- The terrapins were OK because they just sunned themselves in the aquarium, but then the cats and the three puppies arrived.
- The first stop allows youngsters to feed the deer and sheep, then the party moves onwards to stroke the ducks and, finally, to feed the rabbits, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and terrapins.
Origin
Early 17th century (denoting the diamondback terrapin): of Algonquian origin.